Against my better judgment, I’ve decided to stay with Feedburner as this blog’s RSS provider.  Stories of Feedburner’s impending demise have been circulating since late 2012, when Google closed up shop on Feedburner’s API and deleted the service’s blog and Twitter account.  Despite apparently having fallen out of favor at Google, it’s still functional, and I just wasn’t able to find a comparable free service I felt comfortable with.

I’m not entirely comfortable with the idea that Feedburner could just disappear (or worse, remain ostensibly “up” but non-functional, with Google unresponsive), but I suppose that’s the risk we run with any of these free web services.  Easy come, easy go; it’s not like I can demand a refund.  It’s a bridge I’ll have to cross if/when I come to it.

At any rate, the Feedburner address is now sourced from the feed generated by the new domain name, so if you are a previous subscriber, you shouldn’t need to change anything.  If, however, you subscribed to the native feed from the old domain (apaceofchange.com/feed), that will stop working once the old domain expires, so now’s as good a time as any to make the switch.  You can click on the RSS or email icons under Subscribe to Updates in the sidebar, or just click here to subscribe to RSS.

Thanks to Pat for bringing to my attention that the new RSS feed for this blog doesn’t seem to be working.  I plan to switch the feed over to a third-party service this evening, 1/10/15, so if you read this blog in a feedreader and you’re still using the old feed, this will likely be the last post on that feed.

I’ll post another update when the changeover is complete, so please, come back here and visit the actual blog at my new address, www.drdamian.org/blog.  At that time, I hope you’ll subscribe to the new feed and continue with me on this blogging journey I’ve been on for over half my career now.

In an effort to consolidate my social media/Internet presence, I’m in the process of “rebranding” everything under the handle drdamian (or, on Twitter and Instagram, _drdamian with an underscore).  That includes my portfolio website – formerly DamianBariexca.net – which is now DrDamian.org.  Besides being sorta catchy, there’s less room for human error when I tell someone the URL (I’ve been spelling Bariexca for people nearly as long as I’ve been able to talk, but it tends to throw people when they first try to spell or write it).

This blog is also getting a URL makeover.  I first purchased the ApaceOfChange.com domain name simply to redirect to my Edublogs site when I started blogging in the summer of 2007.  It wasn’t until December 2008 that I began the self-hosted WordPress version that has existed until now.

The old domains will redirect to the new for a few months, but if you subscribe to this blog in a feedreader, please update your feed accordingly:

New URL: drdamian.org/blog

New RSS feed: drdamian.org/blog/feed Do not use.

I know it might seem narcissistic, but to me it’s more about hashing out my understanding of digital identity and the digital footprint to which I contribute almost daily.  My two biggest concerns at this point are:

1. not losing the few readers I have (but does anyone use RSS anymore?  Besides me, I mean), and
2. getting the new, singular identity to get the same level of juice in the search results for my name as all my disparate identities that have been around for the last eight years

If anyone has any suggestions (that don’t involve me buying your amazing new SEO service), I’m all ears.

Update: The old Feedburner feed appears to still be updating for now.  Fair enough, but that won’t be the case once the ApaceOfChange domain expires this summer.  Better to switch over now, IMHO.

Update 2: I’m going to be switching the RSS feed over to a third-party service tonight (1/10/15), so please update your feedreaders accordingly afterward.